Learning Earnings- FREE

Learning Earnings is a free website for teachers to use for positive reinforcement.  Each month the teacher gets an allotted amount of tickets to give out to the students.  Once a week, the students get online to deposit their tickets to their checking or savings account.  They may redeem the tickets whenever they get enough money for the reward they want.  The reward will be shipped to the school.

Class Dojo

My neighbor at school told me about a website called Class Dojo.  It's a behavior management website, which is intended for smart boards.  You can program your own good and bad behaviors, which have different sounds.  It logs the behaviors for each student each day, which I love so I can print or email them to my behavior therapist.  In my class, once they get a 5 points, they can have a ticket for the school store.  My favorite part is that there is an app for smart phones.  I literally can be reading with a student and just click a button and the students usually look up at the board to see who did what but quickly get back to work.  

Staying Seated

Today I really struggled with students not staying in their seats.  They found little excuses to get out of their seats.  I am a teacher of many ADD students, so I usually let them get out of their seats every 30 minutes or so to do some jumping jacks or just have a break.  Anyways, I made these "Get out of your seat" passes and gave each student two for each subject.  After they used the second one, I started deducting five minutes off of their recess.  They have already become more responsible about getting all their supplies before they sit down.  Hopefully it will stay that way!